What aspect of email clients does this exploit take advantage of?

Javier is a network security consultant working on contract for a state agency in Texas. Javier has been asked to test the agency’s network security from every possible aspect. Javier decides to use the Reaper Exploit virus to see ifhe can exploit any weaknesses in the company’s email. He infects a couple of computers with the virus and waits for the users of those machines to use their email client. After a short amount of time, he receives numerous emails that were copied from those clients; this proving that the client computers are susceptible to the Reaper Exploit virus exploiting their email clients. What aspect of email clients does this exploit take advantage of?

Javier is a network security consultant working on contract for a state agency in Texas. Javier has been asked to test the agency’s network security from every possible aspect. Javier decides to use the Reaper Exploit virus to see ifhe can exploit any weaknesses in the company’s email. He infects a couple of computers with the virus and waits for the users of those machines to use their email client. After a short amount of time, he receives numerous emails that were copied from those clients; this proving that the client computers are susceptible to the Reaper Exploit virus exploiting their email clients. What aspect of email clients does this exploit take advantage of?

A.
The Reaper Exploit uses the functionality of DHTML in Internet Explorer, used by Microsoft Outlook.

B.
This exploit takes advantage of hidden form fields which are used by email clients such as Microsoft Outlook.

C.
This Reaper Exploit virus takes advantage of the inherent insecurity in S/MIME used by email clients like Outlook.

D.
Email clients like Outlook are susceptible to this exploit because they utilize XML and XMLS.



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